Closing down Montana airspace, two UFOs shotdown toxic train derailment in OH.... What a weekend.
Montana airspace shutdown was just a radar anomaly mixed with a NORAD on higher than usual alert.
US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada
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#262"Some pilots said the object “interfered with their sensors” on the planes" "Some pilots also claimed to have seen no identifiable propulsion on the object, and could not explain how it was staying in the air, despite the object cruising at an altitude of 40,000 feet." https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/politics/unidentified-object-... "It was described as "cylindrical and silver-ish gray" and seemed to be floating, a U.…
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#263I wonder if they're trying to figure out what we can detect and we're giving them all the information they need by publically shooting these down.
I'm convinced that's why the balloons haven't been shot down in the past. Learning our detection abilities is probably way more important for China than anything they would be able to take a picture of.
People can see these with the naked eye (or with cameras). If our sophisticated defense systems are failing to match the naked eye... something is wrong.
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#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
Funny, they confirmed it was unmanned but they refuse to confirm whether its a balloon. Bit weird don't you think?
"well, technically we recovered an alien so it was 'unmanned' because there were no men onboard"...some defense department lawyer
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#265Earlier quoted context omitted.
Says a lot about the RCAF though: they can't even defend their territory properly.
Did you even read the article? > The Pentagon said the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected the object over Alaska late Friday evening. U.S. fighter jets from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, monitored the object as it crossed over into Canadian airspace, where Canadian CF-18 and CP-140 aircraft joined the formation.
I did read the article, yes. It was the US plane that did the actual take down. Of course RCAF planes joined, how much more pathetic would it have been if only foreign planes did the work. Did Canadian planes join in the other day when the Alaska one was shot down? Of course not, because the USAF is able to do it on their own, unlike the RCAF, which was my original point.
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#267"Some pilots said the object “interfered with their sensors” on the planes" "Some pilots also claimed to have seen no identifiable propulsion on the object, and could not explain how it was staying in the air, despite the object cruising at an altitude of 40,000 feet." https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/politics/unidentified-object-... "It was described as "cylindrical and silver-ish gray" and seemed to be floating, a U.…
Lmao "seemed to be floating".
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#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm convinced that's why the balloons haven't been shot down in the past. Learning our detection abilities is probably way more important for China than anything they would be able to take a picture of.
Yeah, I don't think that's it. Detecting a balloon doesn't take any exotic technology. Now a hypersonic missile, or a stealth plane -- that would be a test. But losing one of those would be pretty expensive.
I suspect finding a small balloon in the mind-boggling huge space that is American airspace is, can be surprisingly challenging.
My understanding is that these UAFs are much smaller than that first Chinese balloon last week.
It probably also costs a lot more money to shoot down a balloon than it costs China to put a balloon in the air.
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#269Closing down Montana airspace, two UFOs shotdown toxic train derailment in OH.... What a weekend.
Definitely time to bring back Mulder and Scully from retirement.
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#270Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm convinced that's why the balloons haven't been shot down in the past. Learning our detection abilities is probably way more important for China than anything they would be able to take a picture of.
People can see these with the naked eye (or with cameras). If our sophisticated defense systems are failing to match the naked eye... something is wrong.
My understanding is that only the balloon from last week was huge and easy to see with the human eye. I believe the other UAFs are much smaller. Also there were 3 or 4 during the Trump administration and noone noticed them with their naked eye